{"id":113785,"date":"2020-06-04T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/japanese_charts_animal_crossing_denies_xenoblade_chronicles_a_debut_week_at_number_one"},"modified":"2020-06-04T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T16:00:00","slug":"japanese-charts-animal-crossing-denies-xenoblade-chronicles-a-debut-week-at-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/04\/japanese-charts-animal-crossing-denies-xenoblade-chronicles-a-debut-week-at-number-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Charts: Animal Crossing Denies Xenoblade Chronicles A Debut Week At Number One"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3b19d0cad91c8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3b19d0cad91c8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Japan Charts\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3b19d0cad91c8\/japan-charts.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3b19d0cad91c8\/japan-charts.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Japan Charts\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Famitsu&#8217;s Japanese chart figures are now in for 25th &#8211; 31st May, revealing that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a><\/strong> is still standing strong at number one.<\/p>\n<p>The game sold an estimated 102,749 copies last week &#8211; an almost identical figure to the week before &#8211; leaving this week&#8217;s new Switch title <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/xenoblade_chronicles_definitive_edition\">Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition<\/a><\/strong> in second place. The JRPG shifted 90,789 physical copies in the region in its debut week. Xenoblade <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/uk_charts_xenoblade_chronicles_definitive_edition_goes_straight_to_number_one\">did manage to reach number one in the UK<\/a>, however.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo took eight of the top ten this week, with two new PS4 releases also appearing.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the top 10 (first numbers are this week&#8217;s estimated sales, followed by total sales):<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>1) [NSW] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a> (Nintendo) {2020.03.20} &#8211; 102.749 \/ 4.685.419<br \/>2) [NSW] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/xenoblade_chronicles_definitive_edition\">Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition<\/a> (Nintendo) {2020.05.29} &#8211; 90.789 \/ NEW<br \/>3) [NSW] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/ring_fit_adventure\"><strong>Ring Fit Adventure<\/strong><\/a> (Nintendo) {2019.10.18} &#8211; 39.518 \/ 956.559<br \/>4) [PS4] <strong>The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Azure &#8211; Kai<\/strong> (Nihon Falcom) {2020.05.28} &#8211; 12.047 \/ NEW<br \/>5) [NSW] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\"><strong>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/strong><\/a> (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} &#8211; 10.415 \/ 2.965.844<br \/>6) [NSW] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_2\"><strong>Splatoon 2<\/strong><\/a> (Nintendo) {2017.07.21} &#8211; 10.041 \/ 3.437.424<br \/>7) [NSW] <strong>Uta no Prince-Sama: Amazing Aria &amp; Sweet Serenade Love for Nintendo Switch<\/strong> (Broccoli) {2020.05.28} &#8211; 9.216 \/ NEW<br \/>8) [PS4] <strong>Bayonetta &amp; Vanquish<\/strong> (Sega) {2020.05.28} &#8211; 7.397 \/ NEW<br \/>9) [NSW] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\"><strong>Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/strong><\/a> (Nintendo) {2018.12.07} &#8211; 7.262 \/ 3.711.072<br \/>10) [NSW] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/minecraft\"><strong>Minecraft<\/strong><\/a> (Microsoft Game Studios) {2018.06.21} &#8211; 6.741 \/ 1.399.850<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Nintendo Switch family hardware sales saw another boost this week, with sales for both the original model and the Lite doubling week-on-week. Here are this week&#8217;s figures, followed by lifetime sales in brackets:<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo Switch: 73,117 (11,488,030)<br \/>PlayStation 4: 3,264 (7,592,656)<br \/>PlayStation 4 Pro: 2,603 (1,540,180)<br \/>Xbox One S: 11 (21,298)<br \/>Xbox One X: 174 (20,418)<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo Switch Lite: 34,476 (2,266,677)<br \/>New Nintendo 2DS LL: 1,109 (1,131,603)<br \/>New Nintendo 3DS: 48 (5,887,618)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/japanese_charts_animal_crossing_still_dominates_as_switch_takes_nine_of_top_ten\">&lt; Last week&#8217;s charts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Any surprises this week? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famitsu&#8217;s Japanese chart figures are now in for 25th &#8211; 31st May, revealing that Animal Crossing: New Horizons is still standing strong at number one. The game sold an estimated 102,749 copies last week &#8211; an almost identical figure to the week before &#8211; leaving this week&#8217;s new Switch title Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}